All I want is to convene a labor or historian, a trauma specialist, a costume designer, and experts in the various ethno/social groups at hand to discuss Peaky Blinders in depth.
Love the show, though there are some DP/sound design/weak-sauce ghost and truly over-the-top flaws in the most recent season that I hope will not curse the next.
All that heavy breathing/Ghost/aggressively sudden phase light stuff in a couple S5 eps could have been cut and the season would have been totally the better for it!

Did the show runner change? (Too lazy to Google)
5th season quibbles aside, can think of another series that delves into super complicated labor/ethno issues so much and does so without monologuing its way through it.
Also, as a Quaker, the mere acknowledgment of us, particularly our role in centuries worth of dynamic social upheaval, and even if a single character cannot possibly represent us is (possibly dismayingly) gratifying.
But if I had to limit my Qs to any experts/elders it might be: did the Roma Gypsies (term used in show and also elsewhere) and Irish travelers have such alliances/overlaps?

And: how indicative this depiction of ascendant fascism and red to brown (and visa versa) dynamics.

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How big a percentage is a question I wish sociologists and psychologists would ascertain so that we could better risk assess.
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We need more men confronting each other, and themselves like that
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2/ Harper's operates like a cult, one that swears even those who leave to some kind oath of silence, in part because they were complicit in the way that staff are underpaid and treated. It takes *decades* for many to wake up.
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guys, when the cartels cancel you, they don't use words.
Actual Mexicans=fleeing cartels violence

Cosplaying GOP Senators=Mommy somebody yelled at me
this is one of so many moments in the last 6 years when I wish Chuck Bowden were still alive.
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Again, not talking about escapism.
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